Subject
Grade
Curricular Competency Group
Curricular Competency
Processing and analyzing data and information
Elaboration
- Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:
- Classify fossils based on their modes of formation, taxonomy, and environments.
- Reconstruct and interpret past environments, applying the principles of absolute and relative dating and using stratigraphy diagrams.
- Use multiple seismographs and triangulation to locate an earthquake’s epicentre on a map.
- Create and interpret time-distance graphs for P and S waves.
- Survey a local geologic structure and create a block diagram.
- Model geologic events in your local area, using shared First Peoples knowledge and personal observations.
- Apply information from index fossils to solve problems that require correlation among various rock units.
- Show the interrelationships among a geologic map, a cross-section, and a block diagram for a specific feature (e.g., fold, fault, dome).
- Differentiate erosional and depositional glacial features as observed through illustrations and photographs.
- Analyze the properties of subsurface rock layers that are capable of storing water or fossil fuels.
keywords
Processing and analyzing data and information